April Fools!

Oy…
So, I’m back.  And busy.  So I’ll cut straight to the chase here.
Absolute favorite April Fool’s Day joke so far?  Belongs to Seeqpod.  No matter what song or artist you search for today, the first song that will come up is Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”  Brilliant.
Go give it a try.  You know [...]

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Why I Think I’ve Grown As A Person

I love and am married to a man despite the fact that he does not share — even in a single, tiny way — the deep and abiding devotion that I have for The Royal Tenenbaums and Lou Reed.
I should get a Nobel prize for this.

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An Updated Valentine

Alright, my little bluebirds, your voices were heard and I now have a completely, brand-spanking-new 90s mix tape for you:
New And Improved!
I included almost every band I could think of off the top of my head, as well as your suggestions, and even bands/songs which I deeply and truly hate (…Dave Matthews Band, I’m looking [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

My friend Jessica used to make the most badass mix tapes.  She’d dig up music that none of us had ever heard before and proudly present it on homemade mix tapes with completely nonsensical names like “I Wish You Weren’t A Liar” and “$0.02″ and “Małe Kartofle” (pronounced “maow-eh kar-toff-lay”, Polish for “small potatoes”).  I [...]

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Bitches Ain’t Shit

I adore the Ben Folds cover of the “classic” Dr. Dre song “Bitches Ain’t Shit.” But this a cappella version by DeCadence (a student a cappella group from UC Berkeley) is close to eclipsing that cover in terms of sheer lunatic goodness:

Marcel Duchamp would be proud.  L.H.O.O.Q.

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Down The Rabbit Hole

For me, the best part of this video isn’t how wicked Shlomo’s beatboxing is (even in his early days here), but how at around 2:04 you can see Pete Doherty randomly sitting in the audience, absolutely cracked out of his skull — eyes bugging, the bottle of vodka slipping from his [...]

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New (and Old) Obsessions

I’ve callously ditched Project Playlist for a far groovier music search engine: Seeqpod.  Not only is it much cleaner and easier to use in general, it also allows you to save and share playlists without creating an account.  So much nicer.
And to demonstrate, here’s a short-but-sweet playlist with a few songs I’ve had on repeat lately:  Dig It.
I’ve [...]

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I Still Want A Hula Hoop

Because I’m feeling just a little bit Christmas-y today, with the slight chill in the air and all, here are some of my favorite Christmas songs for your consideration:
Fairytale of New York, by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
For a song that includes the lines “You’re a bum, you’re a punk, you’re an old slut on junk” [...]

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Fix You

Your daily dose of salty tears, courtesy of Young@Heart.

Just in case you don’t know the backstory, Young@Heart is a New England group composed entirely of octogenarian singers.  The group’s performance of Coldplay’s “Fix You” is being led by chorus member Fred Knittle, who suffers from congestive heart failure and breathes through an [...]

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Freak Out Friday

As a special Friday afternoon treat, here’s an excellent cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” by — who else? — Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer:  Redemption Song (clickety-click!)
Because who better to cover a Rastafarian song about slavery than two old white dudes?  And not just any old white dudes, it’s The Man in Black and the [...]

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Guilty Pleasures

After spending a large chunk of the [rainy, cold and drizzly] afternoon watching “America’s Most Smartest Model” and then reading the recaps on TWoP (good gravy-fed God, I’m a dork!) I felt the need to purge some of my other guilty pleasures into the keyboard and onto the screen, in hopes that I’m not the only one [...]

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To Say “I Love You” Right Out Loud

I’m listening to Pandora this morning, which is an advisable respite from Project Playlist.  I’ve got about fifteen little radio stations set up, but this morning I’m listening to the “Air” station (the band, not the mixture of gases).
Pandora does this weird thing sometimes where it throws a completely random song into your otherwise homogenous [...]

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It’s My Own Fault…

I really should have checked my e-mail while I was out on my two-week vacation/wedding/honeymoon shindig.
As a result, I was faced with 276 mother-f’ing, godforsaken e-mails when I finally made it into the office this morning.  As of right now, I’ve whittled it down to 194, with the help of a closed door, my headphones and this [...]

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What’s With Today Today?

I’m having a very Empire Records sort of day, which is probably driving the temp insane.  Good.
Sometimes I get in these moods where all I want to listen to is music from my high school days.  As far as I’m concerned, this short era in music was the critical boundary between the last of commercially-viable yet [...]

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Wedding Favors

I don’t write much about our wedding planning here, mostly because this blog is intended as a place where I can indulge my creative and random sides.  Blogging about the wedding planning I’ve been doing for the last year would read more like a To Do list, and I don’t suppose that’s terribly interesting to anyone [...]

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Rishteebiskits – Updated!

It’s a slow day around the fort, so I’m just going to post two videos that crack me up every time I see them.  Enjoy.
Charlie and Dennis’ Day Man 

Dip It In’t Cup 

Updated because…how could I forget this one?  I love you, Steve Coogan.  Even if you did supposedly lure [...]

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A Sad Day

R.I.P. Lucky Dube

South African reggae star shot dead
The South African reggae musician, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead in front of his children in Johannesburg during an attempted car hijacking.
He had been dropping his teenage son and daughter off in the suburb of Rosettenville on Thursday evening.
Police say they were already out of the car [...]

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You Vote For Some Ugly People From Finland That Don’t Even Have A Real Makeup Artist!

As part of my ongoing obsessive love for Silvia Night and all things Eurovision, I give you Silvia Night inflicting herself upon random Japanese people in Tokyo:

My favorite, completely-Silvia moments of the video include:

Silvia asking an older woman if she’d like to send out any greetings to anyone.  When the older woman says, [...]

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What a Fool Believes

I’m obsessed with Project Playlist.  I’m there at least ten times a day, adding a new song to one of my increasingly random playlists every time an old song pops into my head.  Out of boredom yesterday, I started to browse through some of the other playlists that various other junkies Project Playlist users had [...]

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A Shiny Fiddle Made of Gold

From a short but awesome — as always — Tomato Nation post on a topic I’ve always questioned:
…how in the hell anyone is supposed to believe the Devil didn’t beat Johnny’s ass in “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”…
Read the entire post here.  And then go and read the newest Girls’ Bike Club installment while you’re [...]

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